Chance doctor’s visit found melanoma, saved Peter's life

RELIEVED: Peter Parker shows the wound left after a melanoma was removed from his neck by Dr Stephen Rigby.Allen Winter

PETER Parker first noticed a small black mark on his neck about 10 years ago.

He didn't think a great deal about it and wasn't too concerned.

But the mark started to grow about four years ago and took on a shape something like Australia. Then Tasmania popped up, and then the two marks joined.

"A couple of weeks ago, I was heading to the cinema to check movie times and walked past the Gladstone Medical Centre. I had been a little worried about a skin tag which had grown in my ear, so I went in and made an appointment," he said.